Return may refer to:
In business, economics, and finance
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Return on investment
Return on investment (ROI) or return on costs (ROC) is a ratio between net income (over a period) and investment (costs resulting from an investment of some resources at a point in time). A high ROI means the investment's gains compare favourably ...
(ROI), the financial gain after an expense.
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Rate of return
In finance, return is a profit on an investment. It comprises any change in value of the investment, and/or cash flows (or securities, or other investments) which the investor receives from that investment, such as interest payments, coupons, ca ...
, the financial term for the profit or loss derived from an investment
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Tax return
A tax return is the completion of documentation that calculates an entity or individual's income earned and the amount of taxes to be paid to the government or government organizations or, potentially, back to the taxpayer.
Taxation is one of ...
, a blank document or template supplied by a government for use in the reporting of tax information
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Product return
In retail, a product return is the Action (philosophy), process of a customer taking previously purchased merchandise back to the retailer, and in turn receiving a :wikt:refund, refund in the original form of payment, exchange for another item (id ...
, the process of bringing back merchandise to a retailer for a refund or exchange
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Returns (economics)
Returns, in economics and political economy, are the distributions or payments awarded to the various suppliers of a good or service
Wages
Wages are the return to labor—the return to an individual's involvement (mental or physical) in the creati ...
, the benefit distributed to the owner of a factor of production
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Abnormal return, denoting the difference in behaviour between one stock and the overall stock market
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Taxes
A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures (regional, local, or ...
, where tax returns are forms submitted to taxation authorities
In technology
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, the receding edge of a flat face
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Carriage return
A carriage return, sometimes known as a cartridge return and often shortened to CR, or return, is a control character or mechanism used to reset a device's position to the beginning of a line of text. It is closely associated with the line feed a ...
, a key on an alphanumeric keyboard commonly equated with the "enter" key
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Return statement
In computer programming, a return statement causes execution to leave the current subroutine and resume at the point in the code immediately after the instruction which called the subroutine, known as its return address. The return address is sav ...
, a computer programming statement that ends a subroutine and resumes execution where the subroutine was called
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Return code
In computer programming, a return code or an error code is a numeric or alphanumeric code that is used to determine the nature of an error and why it occurred. They are also commonly found in consumer electronics and devices when they attempt to ...
, a method of messaging status in software
* ''Aux-return'', the input complement of an
Aux-send
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An aux-send (auxiliary send) is an electronic signal-routing output used on multi-channel sound mixing consoles used in recording and broadcasting settings and on PA system amplifier-mixers used in music concerts. T ...
output
* "Return", synonym of "
register
Register or registration may refer to:
Arts entertainment, and media Music
* Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, instrument, etc.
* ''Register'', a 2017 album by Travis Miller
* Registration (organ), th ...
", "grille" in HVAC system
In entertainment
Film
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''Return'' (1954 film), a
Hong Kong film
The cinema of Hong Kong ( zh, t=香港電影) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former British colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of pol ...
directed by Lee Dut
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''Return'' (1985 film), a film directed by Andrew Silver
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''The Return'' (2003 film), a Russian film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
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''Wide Awake'' (2007 film), a South Korean film also known as ''Return''
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''Return'' (2010 film), a short film directed by Harri J. Rantala
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''Return'' (2011 film), an independent film directed by Liza Johnson
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''Return'' (2018 film), documentary film directed by
Music
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''Return'' (iKon album)
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Return (Jack DeJohnette album)
''Return'' is a studio album by American jazz musician Jack DeJohnette. It was released in France via Newvelle Records label. ''Return'' is the label's second release and available in vinyl only by subscription only.
Background
''Return'' is hi ...
* ''Return'', an album by
David Rovics
David Stefan Rovics (born April 10, 1967) is an American indie singer/songwriter. His music concerns topical subjects such as the 2003 Iraq war, anti-globalization, anarchism, and social justice issues. Rovics has been an outspoken critic of ...
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Return (band)
Return is a Norwegian rock band from Stange, Hedmark. The band started in 1980, and was in its prime in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In this period they had several singles on the Norwegian hit charts and were among the bestselling bands in the ...
, a Norwegian 80s pop/rock band
* "Return", a song by OK Go from the 2002 album ''
OK Go
OK Go is an American rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, now based in Los Angeles, California. The band is composed of Damian Kulash (lead vocals, guitar), Tim Nordwind (bass guitar and vocals), Dan Konopka (drums and percussion), and ...
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* "Return", a song by Shed Seven from album ''
Let It Ride''
* "Return", a song by The Wedding from the 2008 EP ''
The Sound, The Steel''
* "Return", a single by Natalie Hemby from
''Puxico'' (album) (2017)
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''Returns'' (album), a 2009 album by Return to Forever
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''Return'' (EP), a 2011 EP by F.T. Island
Other
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"Return" (''Law & Order''), a 2000 episode of ''Law & Order''
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"Return" (''The Secret Circle''), 2012
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The Returns
William Forsythe (born December 30, 1949) is an American dancer and choreographer resident in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is known for his work with the Ballet Frankfurt (1984–2004) and The Forsythe Company (2005–2015). Recognized for ...
'', a 2009 ballet by William Forsythe
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''Return'' (TV series), a 2018 South Korean TV series
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''Return'' (Polish TV series) a 2022 Polish TV series
In politics
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Return (Transnistria)
Return (russian: Возрождение) is an inactive political party in Transnistria
Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part ...
, a European political party
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Election
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office.
Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...
returns, denoting the resulting tallies of election ballots
People
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Return J. Meigs, Sr. (1740–1823), American Revolutionary War officer, federal Indian agent
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Return J. Meigs, Jr.
Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. (; November 17, 1764March 29, 1825) was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the fourth governor of Ohio, fifth United States Postmaster General, and as a United States senator.
Early life
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(1764–1825), Governor of Ohio, U.S. Postmaster General
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Return Torrey
Return Delos Torrey (March 24, 1835 – November 2, 1893) was an American miller from Oshkosh, Wisconsin who spent one two-year term (1877–1878) as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate from the 19th District ( Winnebago County).'Proceedi ...
(1835–1893), American politician
Other
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Return Point
Return Point is a rocky slope forming the south-west extremity of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It lies 2 km west-north-west of Cheal Point.
History
The point was discovered on 7 December 1821 by Captain ...
, Antarctica
* In gridiron football (American or Canadian), "return" can refer to either:
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Kickoff return
A kickoff is a method of starting a drive in gridiron football. Typically, a kickoff consists of one team – the "kicking team" – kicking the ball to the opposing team – the "receiving team". The receiving team is then entitled to ''return' ...
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Punt return
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Nostoi
The ''Nostoi'' ( el, Νόστοι, ''Nostoi'', "Returns"), also known as ''Returns'' or ''Returns of the Greeks'', is a lost Epic poetry, epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the Trojan cycle, which told the ent ...
'' ("Returns"), a lost ancient Greek epic
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Diminishing returns
In economics, diminishing returns are the decrease in marginal (incremental) output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production is incrementally increased, holding all other factors of production equal ( ceteris paribu ...
, referring to a decrease of efficiency with scaling
See also
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The Return (disambiguation)
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Return channel In communications systems, the return channel (also reverse channel or return link) is the transmission link from a user terminal to the central hub. Return links are often, but not always, slower than the corresponding forward links. Examples whe ...
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